RE: Dateline NBC TMI story - A different evaluation

["Bob Hearn" <rah@AMERICA.NET>]

The next show was introduced with a picture of a pile of guns. The agenda

here is control of those guns that [persons use to] kill persons.



While I agree that a show centered around a person who was reporting for

Rolling Stone at TMI and was involved in the China Syndrome production could

be classified as entertainment, the political agenda and narrow one-sided

perspective is clear, (and underscored by the obvious editing that

interrupted consecutive related sentences in the broadcast to slant the

audience inference).



Bob Hearn

rah@america.net



-----Original Message-----

From: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS) [mailto:jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov]

Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:12 PM

To: Bob Hearn; Sandy Perle; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: RE: Dateline NBC TMI story - A different evaluation





And I suppose the next feature on Dateline, which is on the shooter who

fired from the tower at the University of Texas, is to frighten people about

going to a university?  Or to be afraid of walking near tall towers? Or to

going to Texas?



The purpose of these shows is to attract viewers, entertain them (?) and

hope they buy the sponsors products.  There is a propensity on this list

server to think that anything that is not pro-nuclear is a plot.  Look at

the show for what it was, not what you think it is.



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)



-----Original Message-----

From: Bob Hearn [mailto:rah@AMERICA.NET]

Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:31 AM

To: Sandy Perle; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: RE: Dateline NBC TMI story - A different evaluation



. . .



This production was clearly a politically motivated effort to induce further

unfounded fears of a beneficial technology that has been improved vastly

beyond that which actually worked (despite human intervention to override

its controls) prior to the improvements implemented post-TMI!

. . .





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